The Prophet's Call

A Word to the Kingdom’s Older Stars
Bill Yount

As Cal Ripken Jr. stood up to the plate in his final All-Star Game, he blasted his pitch over the left field wall. On the heels of announcing his retirement, Cal Ripken broke the record to become the oldest player to hit a home run in an All Star Game. He was named “Most Valuable Player” in his final All-Star appearance.

As history was made that night, I sense the Lord saying, “The older Stars in My Kingdom are going to shine brighter and do greater exploits than ever before!” I sense there is a special anointing coming upon older men and women in the Body of Christ. God is not through using you. Your age is not against you, it is for you. Job 12:12 says, “With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.” You have more wisdom now than ever. With years comes understanding.

This anointing is going to cause you to live longer. Many of you have not planned to live long enough! It will be an anointing similar to Caleb when he reached eighty-five years. He said to the Lord, “I am as strong now as when I was forty, and I want to take another mountain!” There is coming a “spiritual fountain of youth” into your midst—a renewing, a release of God’s strength. Psalm 68:28 says, “Thy God hath commanded thy strength.” God is commanding His strength into you! One translation says, “Your God has decided you will be strong!”

Many of You are Going to Have to Live Longer Because…

Many of you are going to have to live longer because God is not through using you. Many of you are going to go into a second “childhood” in the Spirit. You will be re-activated by God to live out your dreams that you are just dreaming about right now. People and relatives will laugh and say, “You are going to do what? You are going to go where? At your age?” But that anointing is going to rise up within you to take mountains, to do exploits, to run and not be weary, to walk and not faint (Isaiah 40:31).

Our older years are when we are in our prime to be used and bring forth fruit. Psalm 91:16 says, “With long life I will satisfy (you) and show (you) My salvation.” There is an anointing coming upon God’s people to live longer. The joy of the Lord which is our strength is lengthening our days upon the earth.

Many have made out their wills, but before you think about leaving, check out your Father’s will for you. I don’t think you are going anywhere for a while! As Abraham and Sarah conceived in old age, you are about to conceive and live to see your Isaac…your impossible dream!

Bill Yount
Blowing the Shofar Ministries
Email: theshofarhasblown@juno.com

One of the largest lessons to learn is how to relate with others while we walk step by step with the Lord.
As Jesus, we do not impede our personal wills upon others. The Lord has decided that each man has his own
free will, and may choose as he wants.

If it seems that year after year your dreams are dampened, or that walls that shoot up and block vision because of others that do not love and respect the Lord as you do, or if it seems that they refuse to listen to the voice of the Lord, and all this touches your life, it can bring about hopelessness and despair. It becomes a classic of ‘one man running another man’s life.’ It can open the door to bitterness in your life, which in turn, opens the door to the adversary for destruction. It becomes an element of control. We know that Jesus was placed in control over matters in heaven and on earth, but it seems that sometimes that those who have control in our lives are becoming an obstacle in our life.

The example of Jesus planning on going to one town but being prevented due to the disobedience of one whom Jesus had healed is good for us to ponder. In Mark 1:40, we are told how Jesus healed a leper, and then Jesus told the healed leper that he should go and tell no one. In verse 45, it says that the man went out and told everyone, and because of this, Jesus was no longer able to enter the city. Jesus had to re-direct His steps. He did not like it that the healed man’s actions changed His path, but neither did He wish the man to be removed and out of the way. Jesus learned obedience by yielding His way, His feelings, and His directions to our Father above.

When the Lord has a path for a person, and He has a person willing to walk that path, He will move Heaven and earth to bring about His perfect plans. No person on earth is strong enough to stay the hand of God.

He may decide to ping pong His vessel through hindrances, or He may bust through walls head on, allowing the consequence to fall where they may. The choice is determined by the Lord who is directing the steps.

Walk the path you are called to walk, but remember to walk it with faith.
Walk the path with the joy of the Lord who holds heaven and earth in His hand.
Walk the path and enrich the one who be a hinder-er. Jesus never sat down on a rock
and pouted that He was unable to go to the town where He was headed toward when His
path was change. He went on, busy about the Kingdom and it’s business. So do likewise.

Jesus did not pretend that He was never suppose to go to that town. He knew what He knew.
Jesus never justified His diverted steps by saying it might not have been the Father’s will to go there
in the first place. Jesus knew His path. Jesus never cursed the disobedient one for changing His path, He kept His eyes on the Father above. Ours is to pray the perfect will of God for that person, as it is written by God in that person’s own book of life. We can not pray our book of life over their lives without opening the door to the enemy to bring about confusion and evil spirits operating through manipulation.

The man who needed healing and Jesus’ paths crossed, and then the paths departed from each other.
Such will be the way of anyone, or anything that stands in the path that God has ordained for His faithful
servants.

If it seems that your husband, or boss, or pastor, or even the prayer group that you are a part of will not yield to the will of God, and that they are hindering you. Do not give into helplessness. Do not yield to the other person’s will with thoughts that there is nothing that can be done to change it. We yield because it is the way the Lord tells us to do. We come into agreement with the Lord,
and give it to God. We do not try to manipulate the circumstances, nor do we curse the decision maker. We use the two edged sword of the Lord by having faith that the Lord is in control and guiding our steps, and by blessing the decision maker (husband, pastor, prayer group leader, song leader.. ect) we are commanded to yield to. This is our exercise in handling the weapons of God. The shield of faith, and the Word of God. This is a perfect walk.

Keep your heart clean, a vessel of light, and filled with the joy of casting your burdens upon the Lord.

The false prophet is the one who says, ”Peace, peace, where there is no peace.” He ‘makes nice’, and which of us does not like ‘nice’ and to be ‘made nice’. There is something that yearns for it, and therefore they have a ready market, large audiences, great responses and mass mailing lists, because we want that which is nice, good and pleasant to the ear.
There are two parallel tracks, the fictitious and assumed, presumptuous nonsense of men and the authentic thing, now in process of restoration from God. One will flatter you and make nice with entreaties to your flesh and the other will call you to the cross, and by that you can know who are the true prophets and the false.

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There is something about the seductive power of the approval and acceptance of man that works in us as a leaven for disaster. There is something that men covet to be approved by their fellows, to receive their appreciation and to be honored by them.
To be indifferent to that honor and approval and to speak the necessary word however much you will bring painful rejection can only be borne by someone who has no life unto himself. It is all the same to him as to whether he is accepted or rejected, misunderstood or approved, all of that is to say, that the issue between the true prophet and the false is the issue of the cross. Flattery is an antichrist mode of winning and influencing men. It is so beguiling, for who does not love to be flattered or to be acknowledged and recognized?

We need, therefore, to grow up in the ability to discern and sense the truth in general, and especially truth about this calling. It may well be that certain practitioners are so artful and so appearing to be prophetic that crowds will run after them, and the true man, who does not cut any impression and is a ‘wallflower’, so to speak, is altogether ignored, and yet he is the bearer of God’s word.